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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1891

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 March 1891 · page 4

A MAN named Bugeney, in the employ of Messrs. Furner Brothers, was cleaning some machinery yesterday, whilst it was in motion, when hit hand was caught and one of the finger…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 March 1891 · page 2

MR. HOWLE, of the Wollondilly Gardens, was the victim of a serious accident which occurred to-day. He was driving his cart at Eastgrove, and one of the wheels running against a stump the…

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Bicycle Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 March 1891 · page 2

Mr. P. H. MONKLEY had the misfortune to meet with a very nasty accident on Sunday afternoon last. He was riding his bicycle, when a stone caught in the little wheel, bulged out the…

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Shocking Boating Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 March 1891 · page 2

NOWRA, Tuesday.—Last evening a shocking boat accident happened at Terara Wharf, two miles down the Shoalhaven River from Nowra, whereby three young girls were drowned and…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 March 1891 · page 2

Edward Maloney, son of Mr. Owen Maloney, baker of Auburn-street, and engaged as a fireman on the railway, met with an accident early on Monday morning last just after the arrival of…

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The Recent Mining Fatality at Mount McDonald

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 4

IT may be remembered that early in February an accident happened at the Battery Point Mine, near Mount McDonald, by which two miners named Littlefield and Schey lost their…

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Accident on the Towrang Road

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 4

MR. JAMES RIX, of Mary Ann Vale, Marulan, was picked up on the Towrang road, about seven miles from Goulburn, yesterday, by a maintenance man, who at first thought him to…

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Shocking Accident to a Girl

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 March 1891 · page 2

LISMORE, Monday.—An accident occurred af[?], the Woodburn Dairy. Factory on Saturday, when a girl aged 12 years, daughter of Mr. D. M'Phee, hotelkeeper, while in the factory near…

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Circular Saw Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 March 1891 · page 2

A YOUNG man named Gallagher, in the employ of Messrs. Furner Brothers, met with a very painful accident on Monday while tending a circular saw. A splinter had become detached…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 March 1891 · page 2

A BOY named Horan son of Mr. R. Horan, and working at Messrs. Baxter and Co.'s boot factory, had his arm very badly cut on Friday, the injury, it appears, being received in a…

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Three Young Girls Drowned

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 25 March 1891 · page 2

Last Monday week an appalling boat accident happened at Torrara Wharf, two miles down the Shoalhaven River from Nowra, whereby three young girls were…

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Another Sad Drowning Fatality. Two Brothers Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 March 1891 · page 4

IT is our painful duty to record for the third time within a few weeks a dual drowning fatality. The victims in this last case are two boys named Joseph William Warton, aged ten…

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Sad Fatal Accident. Two Brothers Drowned

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 1 April 1891 · page 3

ON Saturday morning last the city was startled with the intelligence that another case of drowning of two leds had occurred that morning in the Mulwarree near the spot where the…

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Two Brothers Drowned

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 1 April 1891 · page 2

TWO lads named Warton, respectively 10 and 7 years of age, were drowned on Saturday in the Mulwarree at Goulburn. While the boys were fishing the younger…

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Shocking Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 1 April 1891 · page 3

AN accident occurred at the Woodburn Dairy Factory on last Saturday week, when a girl aged 12 years, daughter of Mr. D. McPhee, hotelkeeper, while in the…

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Shocking Fatal Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 1 April 1891 · page 2

A FATAL accident occurred on the railway at Penrith on Friday. On the arrival of the express train from Sydney something was noticed to drop from the engine, and…

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The Recent Drowning Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 April 1891 · page 4

AT 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon last Mr. H. O'Brien, coroner, held a magisterial inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of the two boys—Joseph William Warton, aged 10,…

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Peculiar Blasting Accident at Petersham

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 7 April 1891 · page 4

The Daily Telegraph says:-- Shortly before 10.30 o'clock on Tuesday morning a peculiar accident, fortunately unattended with any very serious results occurred at Petersham. A…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 April 1891 · page 2

A man named Brown, employed at Ball's foundry, was brought to Dr. Hollis's dispensary on Saturday last, suffering from a slight concussion of the brain, and a broken nose. The…

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The Middle Head Calamity. Four Men Blown to Pieces.—eight Others Injured

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 8 April 1891 · page 3

From tho “Echo” of Saturday last we extract the following account of the great calamity which has shocked the whole community :—A calamity unparalleled in the history of encampments…

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